A writer and director definitely not known for creating escapist cinema, Noah Baumbach (“The Squid and the Whale,” “Margot at the Wedding”) presents his most recent low-affect production. High in quick dialogue and low in life-outlook, as all Baumbach films are, Greenberg succeeds in leaving ...
Griselda Gambaro’s “La Malasangre [Bad Blood],” the faculty show that appeared in the Steeler Studio Theater in the Mahaney Center for the Arts (MCFA) last week, is one that will not soon be forgotten — it will continue to haunt those who were fortunate enough to have seen it — and I mean ...
On The Morning Benders’ most popular YouTube video, front man Christopher Chu, claims that, on the track “Excuses,” he was going for a Phil Spector, Wall of Sound style. So, in the video, The Morning Benders gather fellow San Franciscans — about 50, no joke — to record the song. I’m a sucker ...
Apparently Homer liked coining his share of pithy phrases: every morning (there were 20 of them in “The Odyssey” alone) is a “rosy-fingered Dawn.” What exactly that means is left to the reader’s interpretation. Enter Spencer Finch, the artist who gave this year’s Committee on the Arts in ...
Oh, Spring! Look who decided to finally show up! It’s no secret that everybody loves spring. The sun feels so good on my pastel skin, washing over my pallid, cold soul with a tsunami of rapture and vitamin D. Even better than the rebirth of my arctic soul is all the gorgeous sundresses that the ladies ...
As a hilarious investigation of some very earnest and relatable troubles, “Wonder of the World,” a play by David Lindsay-Abaire and the senior work of Christine Chung ’10 and Oscar Loyo ’10, is able to pose emotionally probing situations and questions (“Has your house ever been so quiet you ...
Even if its details are not as accurate as one might expect, “The Hurt Locker” at least holds a truth of emotion and of masochism that raises it above the overwhelming tension of its origins. Last week, when the film snagged the Best Picture Oscar and enshrined Kathryn Bigelow as the first woman ...
Literary Studies and Philosophy double major Jarrett Dury-Agri has decided to give his analytic faculties a rest and focus on his creativity by using his Old Stone Mill space to create a book filled with his own poetry and photography. Dury-Agri works for the literary magazine Sweatervest, consistently ...
“One never feels like a famous poet,” said C.K. Williams, a reflexive chuckle quickly falling from his lips. His audience laughs; but while Williams may not feel like a famous poet, his impressive host of accolades tells another story. Having authored nearly 20 books of poetry and received the ...
We live in a strange democracy. We live in a democracy where we have no voice, where we have no say, where we only feel safe because our country saves us from the very risk from which it puts us. But, for two hours last Thursday evening, performing artist and MacArthur Fellow Guillermo Gómez-Peña ...
The Middlebury College Orchestra gave its first full concert under the conductor Andrew Massey on Thursday, March 11. This year was a transitional period for the orchestra, as Troy Peters, who had conducted the College orchestra since 2005, left Middlebury last year to be the music director for the ...
Currently on display at the Middlebury College Museum of Art is a new kind of exhibition, curated by Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Associate Curator of Ancient Art Pieter Broucke and his first-year seminar class, Greece vs Rome: The Eighteenth Century Quest for the Sources of Western ...
Titus Andronicus’ second LP, “The Monitor,” was released on the 148th anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads, the legendary Civil War naval battle between ironclad warships. But why derive the album’s name from this battle, release the album on its anniversary and name the epic, 14-minute ...
It often seems that artists’ favorite thing to tell stories about is … artists. The number of narratives centered on creative types is certainly out of proportion with the percent of “artists” in the actual population. But we all must speak, to some degree, from experience, and these stories ...
The other day, as I was eating a heart attack in the Grille, working on a paper, I remembered a gold chain that I used to own. It’s been years since I lost that chain, but it made me think, “When did it stop being cool to wear gold?” As is the case with almost every question I have, I turned to ...
In his first performance at Middlebury since graduation, opera tenor William Burden ’86 will be giving a recital to benefit the Opera Company of Middlebury March 13 at the Town Hall Theater. Emory Fanning, a former music teacher at the College under whom Burden studied, will accompany him. Burden ...
Lewis Carroll’s surreal and absurd “Alice in Wonderland” returns to the cinema, helmed this time by the equally surreal and absurd Tim Burton. The alternatively whimsical and creepy charms of the novel and animated Disney film aren’t matched by Burton’s self-referential interpretation of the ...
“Introducing,” the appropriately titled debut album from the San Francisco all-female trio Brilliant Colors, is unmistakably a product of the 21st century. Like so many other recent indie bands, the group borrows heavily from noisy, lo-fi, and instantly hummable underground acts of the ’80s and ...